This article originated from activities developed in a project of scientific initiation which was part of the activities of a researchers group from the Universidade Estadual de Maringá. These researchers have dedicated themselves to understand historically the eugenist and hygienist movements occurred in the first decades of the 20th century, in Brazil, and its influences in several scientific specialties. In the present study it was circumstantiated the participation of the psychology inside the hygienist movement through the survey of the main and more frequent themes approached in Brazilian Archives of Mental Hygiene (ABHM), published by the Brazilian League of Mental Hygiene (LBHM).
Hygienism; eugenism; psychology